I live on a fairly busy street and the amount of trash that we collect from drive-by dumping is astonishing. The majority is beverage containers but there is also a good amount of plastic of various forms. I thought we had a lot until I read this article.
All that plastic that you dump into the trash doesn’t always end up in a landfill/incinerator. We consistently throw away one small grocery bag’s worth of ‘trash’ on a weekly basis; we recycle one, sometimes, two bins of glass/plastic/metal weekly. By weight we recycle far more than we trash. Sadly, we are still in the majority.
I weep for the future of our planet; it won’t matter to me because I’ll be nicely decomposed by the time this really comes to a head but for those Billions of us still around it’s going to suck big time unless we start making significant changes NOW.
The plastic killing fields – Environment – smh.com.au
This shot of Quincy Jones that I took at the 2006 CES show was recently selected to illustrate his Wikipedia entry.
I learned a bit about Wikipedia in the process. I tag all my Flickr photos as CreativeCommons:Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs which, in English, means you can use my photos in original, non-commerical works as long as you give me credit. However, Wikipedia allows only Attribution and/or ShareAlike licenses. ShareAlike allows a use as long as the work in which it is included is also licensed as ShareAlike. Basically, if I share with you then you must share with others.
I can understand the NoDerivs (No Derivatives) liscense being a problem since in this case the photo was to be a part of a larger article. The part that confuses me is the requirement that I remove the NonCommerical limitation. Last time I looked (about 4 seconds ago) Wikipedia did not include ads, nor does it charge for access to the site. Perhaps they are girding themselves for the day when they will.
I’m still very much alive.
Since last we spoke dear reader I’ve been to Spain for 3 weeks, Los Angeles for 5 days and buried under snow. Now, the ‘holidays’ are upon us and things get even more harried.
I have a ton of pics to share from my trip and tips about what to do when you are stuck in traffic during a snow storm (hint: bring water and a cup to pee into).
More later…
Digital Media and whatever else flows through my head…
